Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-03
GOOD WORDS.
what nm Ea&terner Has to Say
of Los Angeles.

what nm Ea&terner Has to Say
of Los Angeles.
The Holyoke. Mass, Transcript has
. correspondent who writes in the fol.
lowing pleasant vein about Southern
California:
An era of speculation has surely be-
gun. Pomona, Ontario, Pasadena and
Los Angeles and, in fact, in ell Southern
California real estate is booming. Land
10 changing hands at increased prices
every time. The whole country has
been dormant for years. Since 1873,
until recently, there has been little OF
speculation. Those who burned their
fingers in 1865 to '73 are not as impetu-
Gus now as then and there has come
upon the business.stage large number
OF young men who have had none of the
sad experience of many of their elders
and they are anxious for boom in
business. While riding to "Lucky"
Baldwin's ranch two Fasteners found,
1t . distance of five miles from a
town, real estate office in which
sat complaisant agent who gave the
information that the tract about him
was cut up into lots, 80 feet by $50
feet, at $500 each. 1t seems ludicrous.
But it is fair sample of 1.-THE fever"
At Los Angeles the real. estate firm of
Ruddy, Burns & Smith is doing thriv.
ing business. The ex Mayor is in fine
health and is much pleased with "the
glorious climate of California" Mr..
John Burns, who went from Holyoke
eight or nine years ago, was advised by
his physicians to take papers with him
20 that if anything happened to him
during his trip that they might know
where to send his body. To-day he is
as near perfect health as man can be,
and he attributes it to "the glorious
climate of California" The firm has
made some good strikes in real estate,
bat most of its business is done on com.
mission. Los Angeles pronounced Los
Angalus by hackmen, porters, etc. } is
m enterprising business city. Its growth
has been phenomenal. In 1880 it
contained 10000 inhabitants. Now it
claims to have 1000. Its streets, street.
railways, public buildings, business
huildiugs, all in1icate thrift and solid
basis for the building of a great city. In
the suburbs are beautiful residences with
elaborately laid-out grounds. One oi
{ hese recently changed hands at $S5, 000
A ride through its grounds showed the
s1drive" bordered with giant palms,
beautifully trimmed hedges of cypress
plants, graceful festoons of blooming
vines, snowy specimens of poinsettias
charming pieces of roek-work and ribbon
fower.beds, great century.plants, fine
specimens of the banana tree, passion.
flowers, heliotropes, geraniums, callas,
trumpet.vines, English ivies, roses,
yuccas, etc., etc., in profusion. No
wonder that feminine tongues exhausted
all common epithets OF praise and resort.
ed to ''Glory to Gideon" and "Heavens
to Betsy" in their ejaculations of admi-
ration.
Los Angeles is smart city. In front
of one OF its beautiful residences party
of down-easters stopped and applauded.
1t was the scene of suburban beauty.
The climate is such that Jack Eros.
never destroys ornamental flowers and
shrubs. Orange groves are numerous
all over the city. The streets are bor.
dered with eucalyptus and pepper trees.
Irrigatipg fumes and bitches run every.
where, the roads are well kept, and
cable.cars, electrical railway and horse
car lines go to all parts of the city. Lol
Angeles has a future, and fortunate ar,
they who went into business there be
fore the present real estate boom began
The bright young man who goes to Cali
fornia to begin life can find city o
active Eastern people in Los Angeles
Near the city were seen farmers engage,
in haying crop of alfalfa, and Chimes
were working in fields of cabbage, lie,
tuce and other truck,